different between glasser vs shaper

English

Etymology

glass +? -er

Noun

glasser (plural glassers)

1. (surfing) person who applies fibreglass and resin to a surfboard during its manufacture.
2. (Ireland) glass marble

Alternative forms

• (marble): (Ulster) glassy

Anagrams

• Slagers, largess, ragless

English

Etymology

From Middle English shapper, shapere, schapare, scaper, scheppere, schuppere, alteration (perhaps due to Old Norse skaperi, skapari) of Old English s?yppend, s?ieppend (“shaper; maker; creator”), equivalent to shape +? -er. Cognate with Dutch schepper, German Schöpfer, Danish skaber, Swedish skapare, Icelandic skapari.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?p?(?)/ enPR: sh??p?r

  Rhymes: -e?p?(r)

Noun

shaper (plural shapers)

1. One who shapes.
   • 1876, James Russell Lowell, Among My Books:Second Series, Dante

     The secret of those old shapers died with them.

2. A machine tool in which a single-point cutting tool mounted on a reciprocating ram is traversed across the workpiece linearly. Shapers can generate various shapes, but were most especially employed in generating flat surfaces and keyways. The shaper is nowadays obsolescent, most of its applications being served by milling machines.
3. (surfing) A person who designs and builds surfboards.

Related terms

• glasser

Translations

Anagrams

• E sharp, E-sharp, Harpes, Sharpe, Sherpa, Spehar, e sharp, e-sharp, harpes, hepars, pasher, phares, phaser, phrase, raphes, seraph, sharpe, sherpa, shrape, sphear